Hi, I use Courier IMAP/OpenLDAP Auth with XMail on Solaris. It's never given me any trouble. The only IMAP client I use is Squirrel Mail though, so I can't say how other clients will behave. Squirrel Mail is an awesome product if you need a web-mail solution.
- Kelly > Hello Davide, Hello mailinglist users, > I joined the mailing list today and move this thread to the list. Maybe > someone has > already solved my problem... > >>>Hi, >>> >>>i have two questions to the handling of newline characters in xmail. >>> >>>I saw that xmail uses cr/lf for mail files even when running on linux. >>>Is there a way to >>>change that to unix cr (maybe as a compiletime option)? I'm using >>>courier-imap with xmail >>>and the dos-linefeeds causes strange behavior with some imap clients. >>>I discussed that with the courier-imap people but they will not support >>>cr/lf under unix because >>>(and that's also my oppinion) unix software should use unix linefeeds. >>> >>>Are the linefeeds configured at a single point in xmail (like >>>POP3_USER_SPLITTERS in POP3Utils.h)? >>>In that case the change would be very easy i think. >>> >>> >> >>The reason XMail uses crlf is because it is the RFC format for messages >>*and* XMail uses sendfile() on linux w/out the need of readline/sendline >>crappy loops. I believe someone on the mailing list already had courier >>working with XMail in some way. >> >> > I had a look to the sourcecode of xmail today and tried around a bit > with xmail and with courier. > The problem is not that courier is not working. The problem is that > courier replaces LF with CRLF > for sending. This results in CRCRLF which causes problems with some mail > clients. > > It seems there's no easy solution for my problem: > * XMail uses very efficient code to send a mail because it can send > mails as they are. It's maybe a lot of work > to add CR/LF transformation :( > * the Courier people will definitely not change the file format that is > used > > The only thing i could do is to migrate fully to courier. But that's bad > because i like the way xmail is designed > and it works very well since a long time. > > > What do you think how much work it would be to add (optional) CR/LF > transformation to xmail? > How many things must be changed? > Would a modified SysDepLinux.cpp do the thing? In that case at least > some SmtpServer code > (the part that receives/writes a mail) must be modified to access system > dependend code. > > > Hope you can help me. > > Thanks a lot. > Michael. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
